Anton Trapp

Anton Trapp (born September 24, 1893 in Bingen am Rhein ; † July 12, 1967 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Trapp attended elementary school. After graduating from high school in 1912, he was an administrative officer in the Bingen district office from 1912 to 1931. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was excluded from 1933 to 1945 from any public activities and was active in the private sector. In 1945 he became an administrative officer at the Bingen district administration.

Trapp, who was a Catholic denomination, was the full-time mayor of Gau-Algesheim from 1931 to 1933 . After the seizure of power, he was dismissed for political reasons. After the Second World War he was a co-founder of the CDU in Bingen and in the Bingen district . He was CDU local chairman, member of the city council and the district council of Bingen and from 1947 to 1959 district administrator of the district of Bingen. In the first electoral period from 1947 to 1951 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . In the state parliament he was a member of the Agricultural Policy Committee, the Main Committee and the Economic and Transport Committee.

He was the district chairman of the German Red Cross.

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
• Honorary citizen of the city of Bingen
• Honorary chairman of the district association of Heimatfreunde Bingen-Land

literature

• The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . 1st edition. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04751-1 , p. 700 .

Web links

• Entry for Anton Trapp in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database